Word: jewish
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nationwide effort began in response to the appeal of Abba Eban, Israel's ambassador to the United Nations, at a meeting of national Jewish leaders, in New York City last Sunday...
...Eagles of the Palestine Revolution." That sounded like yet another unknown guerrilla splinter group, but Middle East sources reported that the kidnapers were almost certainly members of the extremist Black September movement. At the airport, the terrorists demanded that Austrian officials produce a passenger plane to carry the remaining Jewish hostages - two men and a woman - to an unspecified destination in the Arab world. But Austrian officials, after consulting with Chancellor Bruno Kreisky, closed the airport and stubbornly refused to let the kidnapers and their hostages leave...
Kissinger, who with his German-Jewish family fled the Nazi regime in 1938, responded by noting: "There is no country in the world where it is conceivable that a man of my origin could be standing here next to the President of the United States. And if my origin can contribute anything to the formulation of our policy, it is that at an early age I have seen what can happen to a society that is based on hatred and strength and distrust... America has never been true to itself unless it meant something beyond itself. As we work...
Roth's feat of scholarship and imagination is an excellent place to begin Letters to Felice, now published for the first time in English, Kafka's confessional correspondence to the nice Jewish secretary from Berlin who from 1912 to 1917 was twice his fiancée but never his bride. Erich Heller's introduction, though heavily written and somewhat abstract, does pinpoint Kafka's "moral hypochondria ... a man ready to feel guiltily responsible for what he knows to be a flaw in the order of the world...
...Times printed two letters criticizing Kilson's article last Sunday, and will print two more tomorrow: one from Bob Higgins, a black author, and another from the executive vice president of the American Jewish Committee...